In 1982, the much-loved and sadly now defunct BBC TV show Tomorrow's World took a look at "one ordinary finger and one rather extraordinary TV screen." The result are touching, in more than one sense of the word.
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
OpenStreetMap Finally Does Directions, and That's Amazing
OpenStreetMap is an amazing, free, open-source alternative to the other mapping tools on the Internet. And now, it just got a whole lot better: it now offers A-to-B directions, directly from its homepage.
Hunting a Silent Killer: How to Cure Hepatitis C in the Undiagnosed
Hepatitis C has a cure, but how do we find those who need it? Patrick Strudwick reports on one attempt to identify some of the estimated 100,000 undiagnosed people in the UK.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Spectacular scenes like this, viewed from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, o
Spectacular scenes like this, viewed from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, on February 8th, always make me want to join the Navy. The carrier is supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the military intervention against ISIL, and now transits the Persian Gulf. [Petty Officer 2nd Class John Philip Wagner, Jr. /U.S. Navy/DoD]
This Stamp-Sized Sensor Can Sniff Out Explosives Using RFID Tags
Detecting explosives is, obviously, an important task—but many of the sensors are large and require manual operation. So GE's tiny and affordable new RFID sensor could help automate the process, to help keep us safe without much in the way of man power.
Kinect Is Teaching Cops Some Sweet Beatdown Moves
So Microsoft's Kinect was a video gaming bust. Whatever. It's still got its uses. Like...helping police work on their "use of force options" against suspects. You know, whether to shout or shoot at a guy.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Where Are the FBI's Drone Privacy Reports?
The FBI is known to have flown unmanned aerial vehicles since at least 2005 and, like any other federal agency, it's supposed to conduct a privacy impact assessment prior to such activity. But according to Muckrock, the Beaurau can't track them down, and nor can the Justice Department office that's supposed to collate them.
This Is Where NASA's Lab-With-Wings Goes For Its Health-Check
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy—or SOFIA to its friends—is actually a laboratory with wings. And right now, it's getting its decadal inspection at the Lufthansa Technik hangar in Hamburg, Germany.
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